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documents.nytimes.com - 22 days ago

The Stupak Amendment

— documents.nytimes.com — After months of work by House Democrats on major health care legislation, the floor debate on the... bill was at risk of being overshadowed by an internal dispute among Democrats over the issue of abortion. In the end, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided ... (more) The Stupak Amendment

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dailykos.com - 22 days ago

64 Democrats on the Wrong Side of Stupak-Pitts

— dailykos.com — For future reference, here is the list of Democrats who voted "Aye" on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. AL-2... Bright, Bobby; AL- 5 Griffith, Parker; AL-7 Davis, Artur; AR-1 Berry, Robert; AR-2 Snyder, Victor; AR-4 AR-4 Ross, Mike; CA-18 Cardoza, Dennis; ... (more) 64 Democrats on the Wrong Side of Stupak-Pitts

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dailykos.com - 23 days ago

64 Democrats on the Wrong Side of Stupak

— dailykos.com — For future reference, here is the list of Democrats who voted "Aye" on the Stupak Amendment. AL-2... Bright, Bobby; AL- 5 Griffith, Parker; AL-7 Davis, Artur; AR-1 Berry, Robert; AR-2 Snyder, Victor; AR-4 AR-4 Ross, Mike; AR-4 Ross, Mike; CA-18 ... (more) 64 Democrats on the Wrong Side of Stupak

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House Passes Health Care Reform – Looking Back
Firedoglake — ... As for the rest of the pro-life Democrats, the fact that 64 would vote that way is a bit shocking. I knew there was a pro-life majority in Congress, but not quite that large of one. Clearly the House leadership didn’t whip the vote at all, allowing everyone who wanted to take a vote against choice, presumably to help them back home. Any Sullivan says that the leadership didn’t address the Stupak caucus’ concerns until it was too late, losing their leverage. But I’m not convinced that Stupak ever had the votes to kill the bill, although clearly the ...

Unreliable Narration
Lawyers, Guns and Money — Amy Sullivan asserts that the Stupak-Pitts amendment was the result of "political malpractice:" Despite the fact that anyone who has followed U.S. politics over the last thirty years could have told you that abortion would be a controversial aspect of health reform, no one tried to preemptively address the concerns of pro-life Democrats by sitting down with them early in the process. The White House didn't reach out to some of the more good-faith players on the pro-life side until early September. And Pelosi didn't sit down with Stupak until ...

The Health of the Nation
Megan McArdle — ... I know that Amy Sullivan thinks that she and the leadership committed something close to malpractice by not getting the pro-lifers involved sooner, and thereby setting up the caucus for a deal which banned the use of federal funds to buy any insurance that covers abortions.  But I'm not sure that even that charge really sticks.  The fact is, on a pooling basis--and that's the level at which the federal government operates--giving someone money to buy insurance that covers abortions is exactly the same thing as directly paying for their abortions.  The original ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — THE DEMOCRATS WHO STARE AT RIGHT-WINGERS Iin the disagreement between Time's Amy Sullivan and LG&M;'s Scott Lemieux over the meaning of the Stupak amendment, I'd have to say that both are correct -- and that's a real problem for Democrats. Sullivan: Despite the fact that anyone who has followed U.S. politics over the last thirty years could have told you that abortion would be a controversial aspect of health reform, no one tried to preemptively address the concerns of pro-life Democrats by sitting down with them early in the ...

The Bad News: You’re Stuck with Stupak
Firedoglake — ... The man has a solid blue streak when it comes to everything but abortion. It’s as plain as the shock of hair on his head, impossible to miss. So why not head him and the other religious ideologues off at the pass when formulating the health care bill? Why not answer that directly and upfront? Why was there not some effort to partition off the bill in a way which would make for a win-win for the ideologues’ districts? ...

Bart Stupak, Who Just Might Have Saved Health Care Reform -- and the Democrats
Politics Daily — ... Instead, pro-life Democrats continued to be treated like country cousins by the cool crowd inside the Beltway, and as Time's Amy Sullivan noted in her piquant post-mortem, anyone could have seen this train wreck coming. When the first health care reform bills were introduced and allowed for federal funding of abortion, pro-lifers were forced to start from a position of opposition rather than support, Sullivan noted. And that oppositional stance was allowed to fester for too long. Anti-abortion Democrats wrote to Pelosi in June requesting action on their concerns and ...